- Prince Harry shared details about his relationship with Camilla, Queen Consort, on "60 Minutes" Sunday.
- According to Harry, Camilla needed to rehabilitate her image after then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana's divorce.
Prince Harry detailed his relationship with his stepmother Camilla, the Queen Consort, during an interview with Anderson Cooper on Sunday's episode of "60 Minutes."
Harry is currently promoting his memoir, "Spare," set to be published worldwide on Tuesday.
Cooper referred to Princess Diana's 1995 BBC interview, where she spoke of the affair between then-Prince Charles and Camilla. "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded," Diana said in conversation with journalist Martin Bashir.
While talking to Cooper, Harry agreed. "She was the villain. She was the third person in the marriage. She needed to rehabilitate her image," Harry said during the interview.
Harry went on to explain why he and his brother Prince William tried to convince their father, not to marry Camilla. "We didn't think it was necessary. We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good and that if he was now with his person, that surely that's enough. Why go that far when you don't necessarily need to," Harry told Cooper.
According to Harry, Camilla had a special relationship with the press in the UK.
"That made her dangerous because of the connections that she was forging with the British press," Harry said. "And there was open willingness on both sides to trade for information."
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Cooper noted that in "Spare" Harry writes that Camilla "sacrificed me on her personal PR alter," and accuses her and Charles of using him and William to leverage better press coverage for themselves.
The prince also told Cooper he understood why Camilla would go to such lengths to be accepted as a royal.
"If you are led to believe as a member of the family that being on the front page, having positive headlines, positive stories written about you is going to improve your reputation or increase the chances of you being accepted as a monarch by the British public, then that's what you're going to do," Harry told Cooper.
Representatives for Buckingham Palace did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.